Re: It is not just Physics that Should be Hard in Hard SF

James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:

In article <ve9dec$39tdu$1@dont-email.me>, Kevrob  <kjrobinson@mail.com> wrote:

On 10/7/2024 11:43 AM, Don wrote:

 
Robin Cook's mentioned at the reddit link. My followup pertains to Cook.
 

Cook is a trained M. Have you tried F.Paul Wilson's medical-related
thrillers? He's a DO.

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Don't forget Michael Crichton, who wrote well-crafted biological
near-future science fiction books like Terminal Man, Andromeda
Strain, and so forth before he became too famous to write new stuff.

>
Epileptics were not super keen on his take on epilepsy in The Terminal
Man.

He is pretty careful to point out that temporal lobe epilepsy is very
much nontypical... but yes, it's not good press.
--scott

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